Tropical Storm Frances
Sep 8, 1998 to Sep 13, 1998Peak 63 mph990 mb
Tropical Storm Frances passed within 50 miles of 17 counties in TX. It was strongest near Cameron County, TX, as a tropical storm on September 11, 1998.
- Major hurricane
- Hurricane
- Tropical storm
- Post-tropical
Tropical Storm Frances · 1998
How it happened
Follow the storm’s path, strength and milestones.
The storm
- Peak strength
- Tropical storm
- 63 mph, 55 kt
- Lowest pressure
- 990 mb
- Over the whole track
- Counties within 50 miles
- 17
- TX
- Counties within 100 miles
- 27
- TX
- Landfalls recorded
- 1
- Anywhere on the track
Every county it passed
Closest approach to each county boundary, with the storm’s strength at that moment.
| Victoria County | TX | 0.0 | Tropical storm |
| Bee County | TX | 0.0 | Tropical storm |
| Refugio County | TX | 0.0 | Tropical storm |
| Aransas County | TX | 0.0 | Tropical storm |
| Goliad County | TX | 0.0 | Tropical storm |
| Calhoun County | TX | 4.5 | Tropical storm |
| San Patricio County | TX | 12.0 | Tropical storm |
| Live Oak County | TX | 19.6 | Tropical storm |
| Karnes County | TX | 21.5 | Tropical storm |
| Nueces County | TX | 22.6 | Tropical storm |
| Jim Wells County | TX | 27.8 | Tropical storm |
| Matagorda County | TX | 32.8 | Tropical storm |
| Atascosa County | TX | 40.4 | Tropical storm |
| Kleberg County | TX | 43.5 | Tropical storm |
| Duval County | TX | 45.3 | Tropical storm |
| McMullen County | TX | 47.8 | Tropical storm |
| Wilson County | TX | 48.9 | Tropical storm |
| Kenedy County | TX | 62.8 | Tropical storm |
| Bexar County | TX | 69.5 | Tropical storm |
| La Salle County | TX | 74.9 | Tropical storm |
| Frio County | TX | 74.9 | Tropical storm |
| Webb County | TX | 77.0 | Tropical storm |
| Brooks County | TX | 82.2 | Tropical storm |
| Medina County | TX | 87.2 | Tropical storm |
| Willacy County | TX | 91.6 | Tropical storm |
| Jim Hogg County | TX | 92.2 | Tropical storm |
| Cameron County | TX | 97.2 | Tropical storm |
Distances are measured from hourly positions interpolated between the National Hurricane Center’s six-hourly fixes to each county boundary. Strength is shown only where the storm was still tropical. Methodology.
National Hurricane Center HURDAT2. Storm totals cover the Atlantic and Northeast and Central Pacific basins.